"Star Trek Adventures finally corrects the injustice of not having a Star Trek game around at the same time Star Trek Discovery is ripping through TV sets and data streams.... the gaming experience feels exactly like Star Trek. Sit on the commander's chair, take a deep breath, and engage. Star Trek is not just back; it is here to stay." RPG.net review

Starfleet Needs A New Crew!

Welcome to your new assignment, Captain. Your continuing mission, to explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before…

Star Trek Adventures takes you to the Final Frontier of the Galaxy, where new discoveries await keen explorers of Starfleet. Your duties may take you to the edges of known space, or to Federation colonies in need, to the borders of neighbouring galactic powers or into the eye of interstellar phenomena. Your ship and your crew epitomise the best Starfleet and the United Federation of Planets has to offer, and you are needed more than ever.

A new threat looms from across the Gamma Quadrant, as it is confirmed by Commander Sisko and his crew that the Dominion, led by the Founders, represent a significant threat to the Alpha Quadrant. Tension is already high in the region of Bajor and Deep Space 9, as the Maquis continue to act against the Cardassian-Federation peace treaty, with Captain Janeway and the crew of the U.S.S. Voyager preparing for their mission in the Badlands. It is a volatile time for the Federation and new crews have never been in higher demand.

• Create your own Star Trek stories of discovery and adventure on the Final Frontier with 368 pages of content in the full colour PDF.

• The Star Trek Adventures Hardcover Colour Book comes in a full colour edition with black text on a white background exclusive to DTRPG!

• Complete 2d20 game system from Modiphius Entertainment adapted for Star Trek Adventures, used in Mutant Chronicles, Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of, John Carter of Mars and the Infinity RPG.

• An extensive exploration of the United Federation of Planets and its galactic neighbours in the Alpha, Beta and Gamma Quadrants.

• Guidelines for Gamemasters old and new, on how to run an adventure of exploration and discovery for the crew of a Federation starship.

• A full catalogue of aliens and antagonists including Klingons, Romulans, Cardassians, the Borg and the Dominion.

• Brought to you by a team of expert StarTrek writers including writers from previous editions of Star Trek roleplaying games and other gaming talent.

• Personal logs and intercepted communications by Starfleet Intelligence provide a new perspective on Star Trek and its events.

Keep hailing frequencies open to see the full range of forthcoming Star Trek Adventures products. Hardcover supplements await along with lots of accessories including miniatures, maps, gaming tiles, dice sets and the Borg Cube Collector’s Edition game box.

I just want to play missions with the miniatures like a tabletop game. Is this covered by the rulebook?

Samuel WFebruary 19, 2018 10:39 am UTC

Hi Jonas. Those rules are in development and are intended to be released in the Operations Division supplement.

Jeremy MJanuary 16, 2018 4:39 am UTC

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There are no bookmarks in the black on white text version pdf. Any chance we can get those added.

Donovan GJanuary 11, 2018 10:58 pm UTC

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So, for a bit of backstory, my "crew" and I were running a game in the old Decipher system. I was the Storyteller, running a game about the adventures of the USS Akira, launched from Utopia Planitia in 2368. And we enjoyed it, to a point, as convoluted as the rulebooks were. Certain things didn't always line up and not everything made sense but we tried anyway. Then, near the start of December last year, I saw an interesting line in the DriveThruRPG newsletter email. "Star Trek." Intrigued, I looked further. Star Trek ADVENTURES? A new system? I looked at the free resources and was intrigued, so I bought the full core book on faith.

So the short version is that we moved all of our resources over to STA and haven't looked back. My crew is intrigued to see what else is coming!

Robert LDecember 10, 2017 7:09 pm UTC

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When you make updates, can you please include a version number in the file names so that we can figure out which is the updated file and which is now out of date? At the moment there are three files, one is white on black and two are black on white and there is no apparent way to tell what the differences between them are.

bill PDecember 08, 2017 9:59 pm UTC

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What do the covers look like for this printed version? The included pictures above show the insides, but not the covers.

Jim JJanuary 03, 2018 10:12 pm UTC

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Same cover as the PDF and the standard edition hardcover.

Christopher JDecember 07, 2017 2:08 pm UTC

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The black-on-white PDF has no front and back cover, and is 340 MB. Which is weird, given the white-on-black pdf has both covers and is only 36 MB. Also, the notice from Modiphius said the PDF was updated but the time stamp still shows July.

Christopher JDecember 08, 2017 9:32 pm UTC

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Never mind, they updated the update!

Miguel MNovember 19, 2017 2:41 am UTC

PURCHASER

As the printing is updated are the PDF's also updated here?

Chris BNovember 19, 2017 12:10 pm UTC

PUBLISHER

They are yes!

Daniel MNovember 09, 2017 8:06 pm UTC

PURCHASER

How much of the errata is fixed in the second printing?

Chris BNovember 09, 2017 8:44 pm UTC

PUBLISHER

All of the reported errors :-)

Daniel MNovember 10, 2017 11:58 pm UTC

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Looks like the copy I got from MM was the first run, then. C'est la vie. I have a printer and label paper. XD

Guy HSeptember 27, 2017 9:30 pm UTC

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Are there any plans for a TOS rulebook?

Chris BSeptember 28, 2017 10:43 am UTC

PUBLISHER

Hi Guy there is a TOS based introductory box set coming in the spring and we are considering options for next year. All the books are written with a historical perspective allowing you to run TOS era games using the provided technology and ships and the rules are identical.

Scott NSeptember 26, 2017 8:51 pm UTC

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So when will you make a POD available, it would be faster to get than you guys distributing the books through USA Retailers as you're slower than snails. I have seen companies way faster in distribution than you guys.

Chris BSeptember 26, 2017 9:03 pm UTC

PUBLISHER

There is a POD of the printer friendly version coming, however the main print run is on its way to distribution soon. The full colour version is a very complex print job which not every printer can manage and would require extensive time on development and approvals with a separate printer (delaying it well beyond the main print run) plus due to the high print costs we would have to make it much much more expensive than the main print edition. You can't rush major licensed projects they sometimes take longer to get approved. :-)

Stu FOctober 26, 2017 11:49 am UTC

Try living in the UK, everything gets here eventually, very little of it gets here quickly. It's really nice for us to have a proper UK games company, we can get a hold of books decently quickly for a change, not having to pay insane postage which effectively doubles the price if we want to order directly from a company is good too. From the UK perspective FFG are awful with shipping and distribution, Green Ronin aren't much better, Paizo aren't that bad and as a rule smaller companies are all over the place. As a result I've given up and mostly switched to buying pdf's far more often even though i prefer hard copy. The UK isn't even that big a country, distributing across your comparatively vast homeland must be a logistical nightmare. Go easy on Mophideus man, i'm sure they're doing their best.

Scott NNovember 11, 2017 9:46 pm UTC

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Well considering Star Trek is a USA original production, it would be like UK buyers waiting on Dr. Eho stuff from the USA.

Chris BNovember 11, 2017 11:11 pm UTC

PUBLISHER

It is actually on sale and has been in the USA for a while now with more stock on route. In fact most of the biggest US roleplaying games are not printed in the USA but in China or Europe despite those being original USA productions. It's cheaper for a US company to print a book in Europe (let alone China), pay to sea freight it to the USA than it is to print it in the US. We don't print hardbacks in the UK either they're produced in Eastern Europe. UK and US printers no longer have the integrated sewing & binding departments which means they have to farm this work out and that then adds a lot of cost to the production.

Alex GSeptember 21, 2017 11:23 pm UTC

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So will there eventually be a Star Trek Discovery supplement, once the show has hit the screens a few times?

Also, any chance of a Klingon supplement (and do you need a hand with the Klingon language stuff)?

Chris BSeptember 22, 2017 9:41 am UTC

PUBLISHER

It's not included in the license at the moment, but you never know.

Yes we have a klingon book already in the works - with a campaign as full crew of klingons!

Alex GSeptember 22, 2017 11:06 am UTC

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When FASA created their Star Trek Roleplaying Game, way back in the day, the Klingon supplement became one of their most popular titles, almost outselling the core rulebooks. And all they had were TOS, TAS, the first movie and John M Ford's book "The Final Reflection" to go on.

This time around, there's fifty years' worth of Klingon mythology, culture, cuisine and languages (plural) to go through. Not to mention so many different forms, from TOS human form and Human-Klingon Augments, through to the hairy brow-ridged leather bikers we know and love, all the way up to the ridged giants of Discovery.

The authors' work is definitely going to be cut out for them. :) Qapla'!

Matthias BSeptember 19, 2017 5:08 pm UTC

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One suggestion: A couple of pregenerated characters would be great. I think both the TOS-era and the TNG-era crews shown in the interior art would make fine pregens.

Two errors I've found:
- The rank table on page 54 is wrong, although this error is understandable because the costume department in the shows was not very consistent with the number of pins for the admirals. The (2 star) fleet admiral should be rear admiral, the 4 star fleet admiral should be admiral and the 5 star fleet admiral should be fleet admiral. The chief warrant officer is a special case because of Chief O'Brien, who had been wearing the pins of a lieutenant during most of TNG. Then he got the single hollow pin in DS9. His rank in DS9 was Senior Chief Specialist (=Senior Chief Petty Officer).
- If I am not wrong every starship should that 59 points (including refits) in systems for a 2371 campaign, but the Constellation, Constitution and Defiant classes get 58 and the Nova class gets only 55 points in systems.

Nathan DSeptember 19, 2017 9:59 pm UTC

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With the ships, those are deliberate (though relatively small) variations - the Constitution is an older generation of design, even with refits (no other spaceframe is as old in the corebook), replaced by newer Excelsiors that stayed in service for many decades. The Constellation is a flawed design that never quite lived up to its potential, the Defiant is an unusual experimental design that exceeds a normal limit (It has Weapons 13, 12 is normally the max), and the Nova is infamously underpowered compared to other ships of the time.

Chris BSeptember 20, 2017 11:28 am UTC

PUBLISHER

Hi the rank diagram is taken directly from CBS archives and approved by them :-)

Matthias BSeptember 20, 2017 2:15 pm UTC

PURCHASER

Well, if that's the case...
But more often than not the usage in the episodes contradict the entries in the archives. An examples: According to the archives the hollow pin and its counterpart in VOY, the single black bar of the provisional rank insignia used by the former Marquis members, stand for chief warrant officer but were used for senior chief petty officer (TNG/DS9) or crewman (VOY).

Chris BSeptember 20, 2017 3:00 pm UTC

PUBLISHER

We have to go with what CBS tells us is canon. You're free of course to determine otherwise when you run your own game :-)

Matthias BSeptember 20, 2017 3:17 pm UTC

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Even if that contradicts the canon (as shown in the episodes and the movies)? ;)

Matthias BSeptember 21, 2017 3:33 pm UTC

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I disagree, because the both Miranda and Excelsior classes were in service for a very long time. Based on the design of the Constellation class it should have entered service around the same time as the Miranda class. The year 2285 is only based on the fact that the USS Hathaway was comissioned then, but I really doubt that the Hathaway was one of the first of this class.
BTW according to Memory Alpha production notes from TOS suggest that the Constitution class first entered service in the mid-2220s. And production notes from TNG suggest that the USS Galaxy was comissioned in 2257.

Scott NSeptember 26, 2017 8:56 pm UTC

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You also should have included the TOS sleeved insignias, they did not use the pins.

Kate BSeptember 30, 2017 3:02 pm UTC

Alas, that's how RPG licensing agreements generally work these days. Long gone are the halcyon days when West End Games or FASA basically created a massive swath of Star Wars or Star Trek canon all by themselves.

Phil BSeptember 11, 2017 3:18 pm UTC

I like that its the Voyagers uniforms that are worn on the title xD

Daniel MSeptember 04, 2017 1:16 am UTC

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Two questions:
1: If I buy the print+PDF bundle through Modiphius, is there any way I can get it added to my DTRPG library?
2: How serious are the errors in the current print run?

Chris BSeptember 05, 2017 8:47 pm UTC

PUBLISHER

Hi there if you email support@modiphius.com we can organise it. The errors are approx 2 pages of errata - already fixed in the PDF and we provide a pdf of errata for people getting the print book. Nothing serious in terms of rules :)

Matthew GSeptember 01, 2017 4:07 am UTC

Full size preview isn't working and I can't read anything on the quick preview (though that's the site's fault). I never buy a book without reading its table of contents first.

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